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Proverbs 18:24
A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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John 15:13-14
No one has greater love than this– that one lays down his life for his friends.You are my friends if you do what I command you.
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1 Samuel 18 3
Jonathan made a covenant with David, for he loved him as much as he did his own life.
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1 Samuel 20 17
Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life.
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2 Samuel 1 26
I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan! You were very dear to me. Your love was more special to me than the love of women.
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Hebrews 2:11
For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,
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Ruth 1:16
But Ruth replied,“ Stop urging me to abandon you! For wherever you go, I will go. Wherever you live, I will live. Your people will become my people, and your God will become my God.
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Proverbs 19:7
All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him– he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.
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2 Samuel 9 1-2 Samuel 9 13
Then David asked,“ Is anyone still left from the family of Saul, so that I may extend kindness to him for the sake of Jonathan?”Now there was a servant from Saul’s house named Ziba, so he was summoned to David. The king asked him,“ Are you Ziba?” He replied,“ At your service.”The king asked,“ Is there not someone left from Saul’s family, that I may extend God’s kindness to him?” Ziba said to the king,“ One of Jonathan’s sons is left; both of his feet are crippled.”The king asked him,“ Where is he?” Ziba told the king,“ He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.So King David had him brought from the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed low with his face toward the ground. David said,“ Mephibosheth?” He replied,“ Yes, at your service.”David said to him,“ Don’t be afraid, because I will certainly extend kindness to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. You will be a regular guest at my table.”Then Mephibosheth bowed and said,“ Of what importance am I, your servant, that you show regard for a dead dog like me?”Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s attendant, and said to him,“ Everything that belonged to Saul and to his entire house I hereby give to your master’s grandson.You will cultivate the land for him– you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce and it will be food for your master’s grandson to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.”( Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)Ziba said to the king,“ Your servant will do everything that my lord the king has instructed his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth was a regular guest at David’s table, just as though he were one of the king’s sons.Now Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. All the members of Ziba’s household were Mephibosheth’s servants.Mephibosheth was living in Jerusalem, for he was a regular guest at the king’s table. But both his feet were crippled.
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Esther 4:14
“ Don’t imagine that because you are part of the king’s household you will be the one Jew who will escape. If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear from another source, while you and your father’s household perish. It may very well be that you have achieved royal status for such a time as this!”
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1 Samuel 19 2
So Jonathan told David,“ My father Saul is trying to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning. Find a hiding place and stay in seclusion.
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1 Samuel 23 16
Then Jonathan son of Saul left and went to David at Horesh. He encouraged him through God.
